Labor Avoidance

The Origins of Inhumanity

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Jon Huer

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Labor Avoidance is about work, something everyone hates, and something everyone longs to escape. At the same time, human nature is to sustain life that is physical, and thus constant labor is a necessity. This is what humanity, from Eden to our own post-industrial society, has always tried to reduce or avoid by making somebody else do it. Historically, this nature and origin of labor-avoidance is responsible for war, colonialism, slavery, and now, contract employment in market society. This book explores American capitalism and how labor (and the desire to escape it) has become responsible for so much human struggle and misery throughout history.

Author Biography:

Jon Huer is professor of sociology at the University of Maryland University College. He has written over a dozen books of social criticism, including The Wages of Sin, Tenure for Socrates, Call from the Cave, and The Dead End, which TIME Magazine’s Lance Morrow called “an important and often brilliant book.”

Release date NZ

March 24th, 2015

Author

Jon Huer

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

276

Dimensions

151x231x20

ISBN-13

9780761865506

Product ID

23115817

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